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    <div align="right">Last update : 05/08/2005</div>
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      <b>AdCommunications</b> -  advanced communication toolbox for parallel programming</p>
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    This the beta version of the Advanced Communications Toolbox (ACT).</p>
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    This toolbox is based on existing libraries, such as</p>
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    PVM - Parallel Vitual Machine</p>
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    PBLAS - Message Passing Library dedicated to Matrix</p>
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    ScaLapack - Parallel linear algebra Library</p>
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    ACT manage remote executions of softwares and allow efficient
    exchanges of messages between those softwares. It offers the
    possibility to exploit numerous machines on a network, as a virtual
    computer, by creating a distributed group of independent softwares.</p>
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